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What do you improve a excellent veteran side that have won back-to-back championships, featuring a double triumph with 30 victories from 32 games?

Bring in a raft of former pro players who have competed at the top level of club football and international football as you target further silverware.

One Manchester team fields an non-professional veterans team with 9 ex- Premier League players in their active roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, 325 International Caps

The team Veterans Over-35s are situated in southern Manchester and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets League Premier Division.

Their squad list this season features nine former Premier League footballers, with a collective over 1,800 elite appearances.

This star-studded team also includes 222 Premier League scores and 325 global caps.

They include one forward, who netted 37 goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his debut for the team in their most recent home-field match against defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six scores in a 6-2 victory - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

The squad for this season also features ex- pros such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League footballers have secured 15 major honors and transferred for total transfer fees of around £123 million.

Famous Figures and Global Players

Ireland started playing for the side in preseason this season through close friend and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side game, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese forward Niasse, who netted twelve scores in 65 Premier League matches for the Toffees and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut against the opposition - who are based in the city and wear an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen said 'join and play, it's good fun'," said Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Everton kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"When you still love football and you feel you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those spectators who turn up and watch are happy and to give someone's day if they see us competing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the joy of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, he had his debut at full-back.

"That's a bit different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go inside - I'm not staying back that much," he said.

"I warn my defender 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to keep attacking.

"That movement is what I'm seeking. It's enjoyable."

Dreamlike' Experience

In addition to Cisse's six goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for the side, while George Boyd scored five on his debut appearance and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Division with 3 victories from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in over two hundred top-flight games.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had all these ex-Premier League stars," remarked the player.

"I think I was a little starstruck playing against him to be honest.

"Even Heskey came on and he's got over 60 English caps.

"Our side held our own for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

"Our group really haven't stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the way home.

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of normal fellas.

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

'We'll Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate veterans side, who secured the Top Tier championship last season, together with his co-manager.

"We scored one-nil up and had a